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Back on Ubuntu / got a new job.

Posted on January 9, 2010 by peter

Last week was my first week at my new employers office. At eBay / Marktplaats I’ll be working on the upcoming version of Marktplaats and various applications/services part of the platform around it. You can either bring your own hardware … Continue reading →

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SOHO NAS

Posted on December 29, 2006 by peter

Today the mailman brought me the NAS device I recently ordered. It is a nice and shiny Synology DS-101J with a 320GB disk: The device will replace the recently broken WinXP Desktop machine for all its network related storage and … Continue reading →

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Finally: Flash 9 for linux!

Posted on October 19, 2006 by peter

Today Adobe fixed my main problem related to browsing the web using Linux: they’ve released a working version (9) of the Flash player plugin capable of playing flash 8 files for Linux. Release notes of the player can be found … Continue reading →

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osx on ubuntu

Posted on October 17, 2006 by peter

The release of the Intel version OSX a while ago kept me thinking about running OSX on my Dell notebook. Yes, I do have G4 iBook …. but I just wanted to know if it is possible. While searching I … Continue reading →

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Printing from Linux… again

Posted on September 30, 2006 by peter

Last week our HP PSC2110 printer/scanner broke down. Danielle did a bit of research and decided we should buy a Canon PIXMA 4300, best bang for buck if she wants to print high resolution design and pictures. Installation on the … Continue reading →

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Named pipes

Posted on July 23, 2006 by peter

Last friday the guy behind the twinview setup on the desk in front of me tipped me on named pipes. Bash uses named pipes in a really neat way. When you enclose a command in parenthesis, the command is actually … Continue reading →

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Sjoerd goes ubuntu!

Posted on July 22, 2006 by peter

In the weeks just before Sjoerd was born I ordered the geekiest thing I ever ordered in my entire live: the ubuntu creeper. I ordered the smallest size, but it took Sjoerd 8 months, 1 week and 5 days to … Continue reading →

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Fun with XMØDMÂP

Posted on July 4, 2006 by peter

A colleguea of mine noticed me struggling with testing unicode support for the current application. I actually never knew a decent way to enter all those pesky (ë ę ç è ñ) characters. The following xmodmap line will bind the … Continue reading →

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Google earth for Linux!

Posted on June 13, 2006 by peter

Google’s earth, a 3d interface to the planet, is now availlable for linux (natively) as well. Now if only they would include higher resolution pictures of my area (and yes, I wouldn’t mind the 3d building outlining either ): But … Continue reading →

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Sun and Ubuntu

Posted on May 17, 2006 by peter

Slashdot reported on the following zdnet article. The following quote sort of summarizes the main point: At JavaOne, Ubuntu got a ringing endorsement from Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Tuesday in San Francisco. In turn, Ubuntu project founder Mark Shuttleworth … Continue reading →

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